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That was Hera. Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon. -- Rick Riordan
Nick Cannon or Will never did it this ill. -- Drake
Cannon: An instrument used in the rectification of national boundaries. -- Ambrose Bierce
When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures. -- Mario Van Peebles
There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning.... -- Anne Sexton
I, Charles W. Penrose, wrote the Manifesto with the assistance of Frank J. Cannon and John White... Wilford Woodruff signed it to beat the devil at his own game. -- Charles W. Penrose
I heard Professor Cannon lecture last night, going partly on your account. His subject was a physiological substitute for war-which is international sports and I suppose motorcycle races-to encourage the secretion of the adrenal glands! -- James McKeen Cattell
Everyone steals. My favorite movie is Love Don't Cost a Thing with Nick Cannon. Which is based on Can't Buy Me Love, which is based on Kramer vs. Kramer, or something, which I think was Shakespeare. -- Aziz Ansari
Here Churchill repeats with approval a statement he had first made in January, 1930 "at a meeting at the Cannon Street Hotel." "Sooner or later you will have to crush Gandhi and the Indian Congress and all they stand for." -- Winston Churchill
Brother Cannon remarked that people wondered how many wives and children I had. He may inform them that I shall have wives and children by the million, and glory, and riches, and power, and dominion, and kingdom after kingdom, and reign triumphantly -- Brigham Young
Sebastian it is. You can tell me what a patron saint is later, since I have no knowledge of such things. Sebastian Kane. "Sebastian Kane Cannon. You're going to marry me and use my last name, right?" "Is that supposed to be a proposal? -- Christine Feehan
I'm very much involved in art. I started buying art a few years ago and really like the work of T.C. Cannon, who is a native American artist. Then I was introduced to Soviet-era Russian impressionism and started collecting that, especially Gely Korzhev. -- Ronnie Dunn
Jason muttered "And I saw something...Really terrible." "That was Hera," Thalia grumbled, "Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon." "That's it, Thalia Grace," Said the goddess. "I will turn you into and aardvark, so help me-" "Stop it, you two," Piper said. Amazingly, they both shut up. -- Rick Riordan
I do not think he [Reagan] put names and faces together but for a small group of people. There were a few, perhaps half a dozen reporters, that Reagan recognized, including my colleague Lou Cannon, and some from television and the wire services. The rest of us were faces. -- David E. Hoffman
The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon. -- Russ Carnahan
Eddie Drake is sort of this loose cannon, funny, edgy guy, who has this really foolish, foolish mustache. -- Lee Tergesen
I hate small towns because once you've seen the cannon in the park there's nothing else to do. -- Lenny Bruce
I'm politically inclined towards the left, but I don't like to be in anyone's gang; I'm a bit of a loose cannon. -- Joanne Harris
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
I don't think I'm made of the right stuff to be a politician. I think I'm made to be a loose cannon. -- Penn Jillette
You are not going to get peace with millions of armed men. The chariot of peace cannot advance over a road littered with cannon. -- David Lloyd
If we care about the children, the grandchildren, the future generations, we need to make sure that they do not become the cannon fodder of the future. -- Helen Thomas
Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent. -- Madonna Ciccone
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger. -- Samuel Johnson
I am so grateful that I accepted the offer to do 'CSI,' but it was like being shot out of a cannon, and it was so different from anything that I have ever done. -- Ted Danson
On my left the shooting had the sharp explosion of the infantry artillery, on my right could be heard the sporadic cannon shots thundering from the front, and up above the sky was clear and the sun bright. -- Max Beckmann
I like somebody who makes me laugh. He's also got to be prepared - I'm sort of a loose cannon, in a good way. I also like people who disagree with me and make me work to prove my point. -- Monica Keena
I had the most expensive haircut you can get, and I was walking around with my hair in rollers backstage, and my hair still came out looking like I was shot out of a cannon and I had just gotten out of bed. -- Kelly Cutrone
There will soon come an armed contest between capital and labor. They will oppose each other, not with words and arguments, but with shot and shell, gun-powder and cannon. The better classes are tired of the insane howling of the lower strata and they mean to stop them. -- William Tecumseh Sherman
Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep from sheer exhaustion in the trenches, in spite of the roaring of the cannon about us and the whizzing of shrapnel over our heads. -- Fritz Kreisler
My tattoo is of a cannon in Vancouver that I got in a fleeting moment of stupidity maybe 14 years ago. A lot of people have really beautiful tattoos, and I get real tattoo envy. But then other people basically just treat them like bumper stickers for their bodies. -- Ryan Reynolds
Our small ears never had such a workout as on the Fourth of July, hearing not only our own bursting crackers but also those of our friends, and often the boom of homemade cannon shot off by daring boys of 16 years, ready to lose a hand if it blew up. -- Paul Engle
The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless assaults on Israel, even as the surrounding Arab powers distract the Arab masses with the red herring of Israel while retarding their countries with their repression and corruption. -- Conrad Black
A whole army, though they can neither write nor read, are not afraid of a platform, which they know is but earth or stone; nor of a cannon, which, without a hand to give fire to it, is but cold iron; therefore a whole army is afraid of one man. -- James Harrington
You know, I remember Career Day in high school. I remember plumbers and lawyers... I don't remember a booth where you could sign up to learn how to shoot chickens out of a cannon at the windshield of an airplane, 'cause there would have been a line at my school to do that! -- Jeff Foxworthy
Standing at my door, I heard the discharge of a gun, and in four or five seconds of time, after the discharge, the small shot came rattling about me, one or two of which struck the house; which plainly demonstrates that the velocity of sound is greater than that of a cannon bullet. -- Benjamin Banneker
Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets. -- Rudyard Kipling
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work. -- Willie Geist
Intellect is stronger than cannon. -- Theodore Parker
Don't use cannon to kill musquito. -- Confucius
Pens carry further than rifled cannon. -- Bayard Taylor
Prussia was hatched from a cannon-ball. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
You can't fire a cannon, from a canoe! -- Charles Poliquin
There are no manifestos like cannon and musketry. -- Duke of Wellington
You can reach stupidity only with a cannon ball. -- Josh Billings
Do not use a cannon to kill a mosquito. -- Confucius
God is on the side of the heaviest cannon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
Words, like cannon balls, should go direct to their mark. -- Christian Nestell Bovee
A cannon fires only once but words detonate across centuries -- Grant Morrison
For God's Sake be sure you do not risk the cannon. -- John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough
A volcano may be considered as a cannon of immense size. -- Oliver Goldsmith
You are being used as cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism. -- Jane Fonda
...how many times must the cannon balls fly Before they're forever banned? -- Bob Dylan
Do not stand directly in front of a cannon...how true that is. -- Brian Regan
If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The house shakes...with the roar of the cannon. No sleep for me tonight. -- Abigail Adams
Imagine the world so greatly magnified that particles of light look like twenty-four-pound cannon balls. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
Tis a principle of war that when you can use the lightning, 'tis better than cannon. -- Napoleon Bonaparte
The people who make reality are angry peasants with old cannon shells wired together, an anti-vehicle device. -- Frederick Busch
Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on. -- William Butler Yeats
I hate the idea of owning a gun, but I love the idea of owning a cannon. -- Daniel Tosh
The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A civil servant is sometimes like a broken cannon - it won't work and you can't fire it. -- George S. Patton
The Sound of battle fell upon my ear & heart all day yesterday--even after dark the cannon's insatiate roar continued ... -- Elizabeth Blair Lee
When one wants to be famous, one has to dive gracefully into rivers of the blood of cannon-blasted bodies. -- Comte de Lautreamont
Never bring a cannon on stage in Act I unless you intend to fire it by the last act. -- Anton Chekhov
There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be! -- Paul Revere
The last time Boris Johnson did a deal with the Germans he came back with three nearly new water cannon. -- Theresa May
As Dr. Chiang puts it, â??while Buddha came to China on white elephants, Christ was borne on cannon balls. -- Carlo M. Cipolla
You need at this time especially to know that you are fit for something better than slavery and cannon fodder. -- Eugene V. Debs
To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets. -- William Shakespeare
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Seasons pursuing each other the indescribable crowd is gathered, it is the fourth of Seventh-month, (what salutes of cannon and small arms! -- Walt Whitman
The only way to avoid cannon-shot is to fall down. No such way to be freed from temptation as to keep low. -- Thomas Brooks
Ideas go booming through the world louder than cannon. Thoughts are mightier than armies. Principles have achieved more victories than horsemen or chariots. -- William McGregor Paxton
It is my conviction that in time of war, when the cannon speaks with its powerful voice, the less we speak the better. -- Benito Mussolini
It's such a surreal experience, being shot out of the cannon for any kind of first season show. It all seems very dreamlike. -- Bryan Fuller
Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon. -- Abraham Lincoln
I know their game. First, the traders and the missionaries: then the ambassadors: then the cannon. It's better to go straight to the cannon. -- Tewodros II
Ben Battle was a soldier bold, and used to war's alarms, But a cannon-ball took off his legs, so he laid down his arms. -- Thomas Hood
Being shot out of a cannon will always be better than being squeezed out of a tube. That is why God made fast motorcycles, Bubba.... -- Hunter S. Thompson
If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. -- Mark Twain
Riven and torn with cannon-shot, the trunks of the trees protruded bunches of splinters like hands, the fingers above the wound interlacing with those below. -- Ambrose Bierce
Courtney Love is a loose cannon. She says what she thinks. She's wild on the red carpet. You get the best sound bites from Courtney Love. -- Steven Cojocaru
I was always a bit of a loose cannon, then again I was always the artistic one: bit of a social misfit. I probably still am. -- Brian Molko
Decoration Day is the most beautiful of our national holidays.... The grim cannon have turned into palm branches, and the shell and shrapnel into peach blossoms. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Where do all the women who have watched so carefully over the lives of their beloved ones get the heroism to send them to face the cannon? -- Kathe Kollwitz
The waves Of the mysterious death-river moaned; The tramp, the shout, the fearful thunder-roar Of red-breathed cannon, and the wailing cry Of myriad victims, filled the air. -- George D. Prentice
As a child I went to a circus. They had a man shot out of a cannon into a net. I became intrigued with what was going on. -- Wally Schirra
You can look at a finale as chance to make an impact or a statement, to shock people or shoot a big cannon and make a loud noise. -- Alex Hirsch
The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed. -- Karl Marx
The cannon thunders... limbs fly in all directions... one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice... it's Humanity in search of happiness. -- Charles Baudelaire
You don`t build a coalition by insulting our friends or acting like a loose cannon. You do it by putting in the slow, hard work of building relationships. -- Hillary Clinton
Sir, it is not God who will assemble us on the battlefield, nor position our troops, nor place the cannon, and it is not God who will aim the musket. -- Winfield Scott Hancock
You are absolute angels of the first order. If I were Pope, Iâ??d canonize you.â? â??The Pope would probably love to turn a cannon on you! -- Libba Bray
Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge. -- Herman Melville
A prayer that must have a cannon behind it better never be uttered. Forgiveness ought not to go in partnership with shot and shell. Love need not carry knives and revolvers. -- Robert Green Ingersoll
Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on. -- George Bernard Shaw
A day will come when a cannon will be exhibited in museums, just as instruments of torture are now, and the people will be astonished that such a thing could have been. -- Victor Hugo
They planned this fair to bring business to Chicago, into the Loop. But you could have fired a cannon down state street and hit nobody, because everybody was out at the fair. -- Sally Rand
Have to love the preemptive guilt trip! I will be visiting home for Mother's Day. Hoping for minimal "baby cannon" talk, but realistically that's going to be a big part of the day. -- Kate Siegel
We heard the army before we saw it. The noise was like a cannon barrage combined with a football stadium crowd- like every Patriots fan in New England was charging us with bazookas. -- Rick Riordan
If you hate my guts and have designs to hurt me, and I see you building a cannon aimed at my house, I am not going to wait for you to finish construction. -- Walter E. Williams
Working on television is like being shot out of a cannon. They cram you all up with rehearsals, then someone lights a fuse and - .BANG! - there you are in someone's living room. -- Tallulah Bankhead
But it is neither cannon nor bayonet that will do the worst damage to this city. No, this place will remember the war against our government just as long as there are inhabitants here. -- Knute Nelson
It really is a choice between division or unity, between an economy that works for everyone or one that is stacked for those at the top, between strong, steady leadership or a loose cannon. -- Hillary Clinton
The way the moon dashes through clouds that blow Loosely as cannon-smoke... Is a reminder of the strength and pain Of being young; that it can't come again, But is for others undiminished somewhere. -- Philip Larkin
A man can no more be a Christian without facing evil and conquering it than he can be a soldier without going to battle, facing the cannon's mouth, and encountering the enemy in the field. -- Edwin Hubbel Chapin

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